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âCourtesy not necessarily contagiousâ: UPS driver after 50 accident-free years
Ohio resident and UPS driver Ron âBig Dogâ Sowder (pictured) started his career with UPS in 1962 after serving in the Navy and answering an employment ad. On January 25, the driver marked 50 years hauling for the company â all of it without an accident. Sowderâs 4 million-plus safe miles have made him the [âŚ]
January 30, 2012
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Foiling the truck-hackers, winning the triathlon
Whatâs next, âTruckhacking?â If this doesnât lend new urgency to the technical standards FMCSAâs mulling for EOBRs, I donât know what does. Craig Trudell reported yesterday in Bloomberg BusinessWeek on a team of âcarhackingâ researchers out of the University of California San Diego and the University of Washington, who found during a study that they [âŚ]
October 14, 2011
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Say ____ to electronic logs, Take 2
Itâs time to play fill in the blank again on the Channel 19 blog. Itâs been nearly  a year since the above headline graced this hall above a post about a rash of legislative proposals to mandate electronic logs for the entirety of interstate truckers and certain low-cost electronic logging options out there. In the [âŚ]
August 29, 2011
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Soul/funk icon Syl Johnson started with a solid foundation
I bet you can guess just where, right? Syl Johnson (pictured) is a Mississippi-born singer-songwriter who came of age in the late 1950s and 1960s in Chicago â heâs perhaps best known for the âIs It Because Iâm Black?â single penned and released in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.âs assassination in the late [âŚ]
November 11, 2010
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Growing mode for cartel drug trafficking: Class 8 trucks, says NPR
In a story that aired on National Public Radioâs âAll Things Consideredâ program Monday, John Burnett dropped what is to my thinking a recently developing bombshell on hopes from some that a resolution to the U.S.-Mexican cross-border trucking stalemate would be soon in coming. âIn Nuevo Laredo,â he wrote, site of the high-volume trade border [âŚ]
November 10, 2010
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YouTubing truckers hit NPR Charlotte station
Julie Rose of Charlotte, N.C., NPR affiliate WFAE.org (a voice I remember from my times south of the city in Rock Hill, S.C.) picked up on the phenomenon of the YouTube community of truck drivers with a story, available at the WFAE.org site this past Monday, that features some familiar faces. Among them was included good [âŚ]
October 28, 2010
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âPersonal and poetic meditationâ on American trucking
The creators are art photographers Frank Tribble and Tracey Mancenido, a husband-wife team who a couple years back, NPR reported last week in their âPicture Showâ feature, took up the trucking life for a time to get a clearer understanding of the world. The result, a photographic exhibition at the Sasha Wolf Gallery in New [âŚ]
October 7, 2010
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NPR looks at truckersâ health issues and regulation
A radio story on regulatorsâ scrutiny of truckers health aired last week Friday for a larger than usual audience â on NPR by reporter Frank Morris out of station KCUR in Kansas City, Mo. He introduced the heart â or stomach â of the story quickly: âOutside the Iron Skillet restaurant on I-70 east of [âŚ]
August 4, 2010
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From homeschooled in the cab to Harvard Law
Kerry Anderson may someday be the President of the United States. Sheâs got the educational pedigree, at least, having graduated from Harvard and now contemplating law school â whatâs interesting about all this is that according to the feature interview NPR All Things Considered cohost Michele Norris conducted with Kerry Anderson Wednesday, Anderson is the daughter [âŚ]
July 23, 2010
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Trucks on Pakistanâs Grand Trunk Road
If you missed National Public Radioâs recent reporting along the Grand Trunk Road, an historic connection between far eastern and western sections of the Indian subcontinent, from Bengal to Peshawar in Pakistan, you probably missed this report by John Poole from a truckstop outside Islamabad. The stop, a rather informal spot on the Grand Trunk Road [âŚ]
May 25, 2010
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